• Powering up Ninh Thuan plans

    12/03/2011 05:00

    Intensive preparations were in the pipeline for construction on the Ninh Thuan 1 nuclear power plant to start in 2014, said Electricity of Vietnam’s (EVN) head of the nuclear power preparation committee Phan Minh Tuan. How is the progress of Ninh...

  • ASEAN beauties look charming in Vietnamese ao dai

    ASEAN beauties look charming in Vietnamese ao dai

    11/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Eighteen contestants of the ASEAN Charming TV pageant showed their charm in the traditional Vietnamese ao dai on March 9 at the HTV Theatre, HCM City. They performed ao dai designed by Viet Hung. The ao dai collection is called “North –...

  • VN to grow biotech corn by 2012

    11/03/2011 05:00

    Viet Nam will start to grow genetically modified corn, which will be the first ever biotech product grown in the country if experimental cultivation yields positive results in 2011, says Trinh Van Hung, Director of the Science and Technology Department under the Ministry of Agriculture...

  • Anti-regime Hanoi lawyer faces 12 years in jail

    11/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - A former lawyer accused of spreading anti-government documents is to stand a first-instance trial in Hanoi on March 24 and is facing a maximum imprisonment term of 12 years. According to VnExpress, persecuting authorities have allowed four lawyers to...

  • Hanoi police nab illegal dollar traders

    Hanoi police nab illegal dollar traders

    11/03/2011 05:00

    The Hanoi police caught an illegal dollar trading deal worth US$390,500 (about VND8.4 billion) at a branch of the Vietnam Export-Import Bank on March 8. The police caught two individuals Nguyen Ngoc Tuan and Dao Manh Quan red-handed, while they traded in greenbacks with...

  • ‘Gold’ Buddha statue just made of copper?

    11/03/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - A statue suspected of being made from pure gold worth US$3.7 million could be made of copper only. The statue weighs 81.9 kg and is 1.16 meter in height and 0.85 meter in diameter at its middle part. Some traders of antique items said the yellow...

  • ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 12/3

    11/03/2011 05:00

    Tourists get to know more about Vietnamese people’s life More than 100 professional artists will work together to portray the Vietnamese people’s life through different stages of evolvement at an installation art show to be held in Hanoi in March....

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